Does that sort of real world camaraderie carry over into film?
I love working with Brendan. Always have since the old days when we were kicking around doing co-op theatre. It was a great ride writing Ten Empty together, we were fumbling around in the dark for a few years as we hadn’t really written for the screen properly before. Takes so long to get a film up and through the development process. I think if anything the greatest lesson I learned from it was to have respect for anyone who got a film made, and who put in the hard yards. A good lesson for an actor to learn I think. Hill 60 was great fun, and I was clean-shaven so it was nice to do something softer, something different for a change. It was like hanging out with mates and getting paid. You can’t beat it when that happens. Seriously the Myles Barlow stuff is brilliant. That’s not really a question I guess. Do you want to do more comedy? I’d love to do more comedy. It just hasn’t come my way much. It’s a brilliant show and I’d do another 75 series of it if I was asked. You played a lead
